Massachusetts Senate Race: The Fundraising Letter You Won't See

I’m
starting to get both angry and dispirited by any number of groups
who are opposed in varying degrees to Barack Obama’s performance
thus far as president. I’m not sure who’s the worst: The ignorant
idealists who thought that the sheer fact of his election would
somehow undo the practical and political obstructions that are a
product of both the Constitution and 200-plus years of legislative
and institutional evolution; the impatient electorate who expected
massive problems that were decades in the making to be fixed within
the space of a year; the forgetful masses who now affix blame to
this administration for the tough choices it was forced to make
simply to prevent things from becoming far worse; the cynical
forces who know quite well whose fault the crisis was in the first
place but who aren’t going to let any sense of shame or feeling of
responsibility stop them from pretending that it was like this when
they got there so it must be Obama’s fault. That said, this, in
regards to tomorrow’s Senate election in Massachusetts,
made me laugh, and I guess at this point laughter is going to
have to do, since the alternative is so depressing.#